The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 69

Now early that evening the Caliph secretly left the palace, accompanied by his grand-vizir, Giafar, and Mesrour, chief of the eunuchs, all three wearing the dresses of merchants.

Who acts: Caliph · What happens: leave, accompany, wear · To what, where: palace, dresses

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caliph), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 evening	advmod
2	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 evening	advmod
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 evening	det
4	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obl:unmarked
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Caliph	det
6	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 left	nsubj
7	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	8 left	advmod
8	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 accompanied	punct
12	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 palace	acl
13	by	by	ADP	_	17 vizir	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 vizir	nmod:poss
15	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 vizir	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 grand	punct
17	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 accompanied	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Giafar	punct
19	Giafar	Giafar	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 vizir	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Mesrour	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Mesrour	cc
22	Mesrour	Mesrour	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 left	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 chief	punct
24	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Mesrour	appos
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 eunuchs	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 eunuchs	det
27	eunuchs	eunuch	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 chief	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 three	punct
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 three	det
30	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 Mesrour	nmod
31	wearing	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 three	acl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 dresses	det
33	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 wearing	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 merchants	case
35	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 dresses	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	the Caliph	the palace	evening	secretly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme
2	accompany	participle		the palace not said here		by Caliph's grand vizir	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by vizir=Destination
3	wear	gerund		the dresses of merchants			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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